{"id":777002585,"date":"2023-02-20T12:55:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T15:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777002585"},"modified":"2026-04-23T00:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:29:54","slug":"macau-visitor-arrivals-up-101-3-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-up-101-3-in-january","title":{"rendered":"Macau visitor arrivals up 101.3% in January"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Macau has reported nearly 1.40 million visitor arrivals for the month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Macau.- The&nbsp;<strong>Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)&nbsp;<\/strong>has reported that nearly 1.40 million visitors arrived in Macau in January. That\u2019s an increase of 101.3 per cent when compared to last year and 259 per cent on month-on-month terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The increase was put down to \u201cto the easing of anti-epidemic measures&#8221; related to Covid-19 as well as the Chinese New Year holiday period. The number of visitors from mainland China was up by 54.5 per cent year-on-year at 991,641. Vistors under the Individual Visit Scheme rose by 321.6 per cent to 707,360.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of visitors from Hong Kong and Taiwan rose by 704.3 per cent and 139 per cent year-on-year, respectively, to 356,958 and 18,868. In terms of visitor types, overnight visitors increased by 234.5 per cent year-on-year to 816,199, while same-day visitors rose by 29.1 per cent to 581,549.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-records-451047-tourist-arrivals-during-chinese-new-year\" target=\"_blank\">the Chinese New Year holiday<\/a>, Macau received 451,047 visitor arrivals, with a daily average of 64,435 and the busiest day reaching 90,391. This was the highest number of visitors since early 2020, before the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For full year 2022,&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/macau-visitor-arrivals-down-26-in-2022\" target=\"_blank\">Macau recorded a total of 5.70 million visitor arrivals<\/a>. The number was down 26 per cent year-on-year and the lowest since 1999.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macau has reported nearly 1.40 million visitor arrivals for the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":24748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"Macau reported nearly 1.40 million visitor arrivals in January, a 101.3% year-on-year increase, driven by eased anti-epidemic measures and the Chinese New Year holiday. This surge, the highest since early 2020, signals a significant recovery for the region's tourism and gaming sectors, contrasting with 2022's record low figures.","focusai_entities":"Statistics and Census Service (DSEC)","focusai_location":"Macau, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (0.7), operator_casino (1.0), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (1.0), supplier_vendor (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"GGR Impact Projection","query":"What is the projected Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) uplift for Macau's concessionaires in Q1, considering the reported January visitor surge and historical conversion rates from visitor arrivals to gaming spend?"},{"label":"Policy & Market Sustainability","query":"How sustainable is this visitor recovery trend, and what further policy adjustments or infrastructure developments are anticipated to support long-term growth and diversification of Macau's tourism and gaming verticals?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[157,16338],"tags":[23906],"class_list":["post-777002585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-news","category-east-asia-news","tag-macau-casinos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777002585"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777002594,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777002585\/revisions\/777002594"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777002585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777002585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777002585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}